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With regards to the animal kingdom, we often overlook what we can continue to learn, as a species, and as a result, we tend to ignore where we might have taken a wrong turn in our evolution. I’d like to look into a series of experiments on mice which was performed during the the mid 20th Century, which although was used to show the possible effects of overpopulation in large cities, also raises many questions about the slow decline within our family structures, putting our very future in peril.
Importance of the bigger picture
John.B.Calhoun, and American ethologist, who was actually part of the neo Malthusians movement (a belief that the earth would suffer with an increasing population, and should be controlled due to finite resources) decided to run an experiment in 1947, to try and prove the theory that unchecked population growth would lead to scarce resources, environmental degradation and increasing social issues. Although there is a separate debate on the ethics of such an experiment, as well as the general belief system of such a group, i would prefer to look at other, more pressing insights such an experiment brought up and what it spells out to us.
The experiments
Called the ‘Mass Utopia Experiment’ Calhoun created a quarter of an acre enclosure, which was affectionately named ‘rat city’ in which he housed 5 pregnant rats in an enclosure with plenty of all the essential resources to keep the rats calm and happy, and with no predators, they waited to see how this community would evolve. Their expectation was that the population would expand to around 5,000, at which point they could gather the data, and present their findings. However, after an initial explosion in numbers, the population suddenly levelled off at just 150. During this initial experiment, many behavioural changes in the rats were observed, including gathering areas, alpha males patrolling and controlling resources, and an extremely high mortality rate for the young.
The 1962 experiment
After publishing papers on the earlier experiment and writing for the national Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), calhoun was ready to try a larger, more controlled study, to find if the end outcome would replicate the experiment of 1947. A much larger, more elaborate run was created in 1962, named ‘Universe 25’ in which every comfort was provided for the inhabitants, which unlike the rats used in the first, they were replaced by 8 white mice (4male/ 4 female). The enclosure could potentially hold up to 3800 mice, and with almost no chance of famine, disease or outside dangers, the experiment ran for 1780 days. As with the earlier studies, the population exploded, and then, as before, behaviours began to change. some of the males became dominant, while the lesser dominant withdrew from society and began to attack each other. Females then started to have to defend their own nests, but over time, they began to find this increasingly difficult to defend and protect their young, so they started to abandon their nests. Mortality increased so rapidly, the young that actually survived was as low as 3%.
Next generations were doomed
The young mice who actually survived in the nest without any maternal protection, began to display abnormal behaviour. The young female mice had far fewer offspring, and displayed no maternal instinct beyond weening. The young males became withdrawn, lazy and uninterested in doing anything but eat, sleep and groom themselves. Calhoun called these young ‘the beautiful ones’. Males had no role to play any longer, and with no paternal instincts, they remained childless. By day 1780 the last male was unable to father, rendering the colony effectively dead.
A warning to men and mice
The experiments that played out all those decades ago were meant to show how overpopulated areas could descend into what Calhoun termed ‘a behavioural sink’, where society could degrade due to a lack of infrastructure planning, but more urgently it also highlights the devastating consequences of neglecting social bonds and family structures. Regardless of all the resources given, a lack of healthy social interactions, particularly within a family unit, dysfunctional behaviours are certainly bound to follow. Humans, over the last few decades have started to show a decline in behaviour without a solid family and social foundation. As a result, we can observe everywhere we look, the young desperately trying to find other ways to compensate. Mental health is rampant amongst the younger generations, substance abuse has become wildly out of control, and these young people find their only solace in the artificial reality of the screens they have become so attached to.
Family for our very future
Family units have been fractured beyond recognition over the last few decades, with mothers being told, if they stay at home to look after their children, they are not contributing enough to society and are pushed to leave their homes, while paying someone else, with no bond to their children, to bring them up. Men have been constantly told to mistrust any woman who wants to be a mother, that they are useless and worthless. As a result, the west is slowly dying, a very painful and ugly death. In Calhoun’s writing, he referred to ‘a first death’ being that of the decline in the family structures, leading to the blurring of roles within the community, and as a result, the young would withdraw from society. With a lack of understanding of how to socialise, and how to parent, then would lead to ‘a second death’ to which birth rates would plummet, eventually leading to the extinction of said communities.
We still have time
The west is at a watershed moment in its future path. During our entire existence, there has been structure and roles given to make our lives and that of our communities have a focus, a reason to be. As man goes forward, our intentions must be to focus on the young, to nurture, to teach and to guide. Without this, the young will wander, without a path, without a future. We must spend time giving them the tools to feel needed and wanted by society. There are so many voices trying to ruin the future of so many, and there are plenty of negative alternatives the young can cling to instead. We should continue to look at the animal kingdom in order to see how nurturing and the roles that are past down from generation to generation, literally ensure the future of their existence. Perhaps it is time that we heed the warnings set out before us.
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A new definition for the “Chaos Theory”.
Unsustainable over-population where infrastructure incapacity, and ensuing social disorder as the butterfly effect of dysphoria to eventually disrupt society nroms as a behavioural extinction event well before they run out of food?
As with rats and mice, so to humans.
I am not sure our problem is overpopulation. Instead, we are packing people into cities with increasing density. The results are apparent–more impersonal behaviour and growing crime.
“Why think when you can experiment?”
CIaude Bernard himseIf described the screams of Iaboratory animaIs (whiIe being cut open, or burned, or crushed, etc.) as mereIy the creaking of a wheeI.
This experiment. of course, is reIativeIy very benign compared to others. but the fact remains that simpIe observation of HUMAN populations throughout history, and application of thought power, couId have brought more appIicabIe resuIts. Experimenting on animaIs is Iike pIaying Russian roulette.
And finaIIy, opening the door to vivisection by giving it any sort of credence, Ieads to the more common abominations, which aIso digress to unethical and crueI experiments on us useless eaters.
THESE PEOPLE ARE SICK